I would be good, if this set gets documented, lest users will be confused. Can you point me to relevant sections of document? I can add this documentation.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 01:57:49PM +0530, Ashutosh Bapat wrote: > I want to create a materialized view as the output of a plpgsql function > returning a set of rows. But that function creates temporary tables and > thus can not be used for creating materialized view as per the > documentation at > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-creatematerializedview.html. > "This query will run within a security-restricted operation; in particular, > calls to functions that themselves create temporary tables will fail." > > I tried to understand what is "security-restricted operation", and didn't > find any definition of this term or any listing as to "these are > security-restricted operations ...". I am wondering what are other > restrictions on the queries whose results can be used to create > materialized views.
The semantics of a security-restricted operation remain undocumented. You can witness the list of restrictions by searching for callers of InSecurityRestrictedOperation(). Here is the current list for core code:
- CREATE TEMP TABLE - SET ROLE - SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION - CLOSE - PREPARE - DEALLOCATE - LISTEN - UNLISTEN - DISCARD -- Noah Misch EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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